Step into a captivating world of secrets, suspense, and discovery in Hidden Passages, a young adult fiction short story by Eric Bishop. When a curious tween uncovers an old, green cloth-bound book tucked away in his junior high school library, he and his two closest friends unwittingly awaken a decades-old cold case involving three vanished teens.

Seneca opened the door as carefully as she had closed it on her way out. President Barbara Crow’s voice blasted out of the old black and white television in the kitchen. Her moms were glued to the six o’clock news.

“It pains me to see an increase in the crime rate in Light City. For many years, we proudly boasted a zero percent crime rate. Yet in the last month, police have investigated three crimes. Three! An innocent young man was assaulted…”